Minimum Wage

New York’s fast food workers won a major victory last month when the state’s Wage Board voted to recommend a substantial increase in their minimum wage. The decision, which comes in the wake of other recent minimum wage increases in San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, and other cities, provides...

The bill was passed roughly along partisan lines in the Democrat-controlled Connecticut state senate, with a vote of 23-13. It will need to be approved in the state’s lower house, which is also controlled by Democrats.

Just a little more than a month after a court told Hearst Corp.’s former unpaid interns that they couldn’t pursue a class action, intern rage turned toward the other giant of magazine publishing: Condé Nast.